Solidarity 3/171
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Solidarity 3/171, 16 April 2010
Network Rail and courts stop rail strike: abolish the anti-union laws!
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Network Rail bosses’ successful use of anti-trade union laws to undermine a planned strike by signallers was the latest in a recent spate of actions by employers (particularly in the rail industry) that have seen High Court injunctions become a default bosses’ response to any big strike.
Unite Against Fascism gives platform to anti-semites
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On 30 March in Bradford there was a Unite Against Fascism meeting organised by a SWP member called “Muslim Youth Against EDL, BNP and Islamophobia”.
The advertised speakers included some from the Lib Dems, Respect and the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK (MPAC).
Why won't the SWP and Socialist Party join the SCSTF?
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Why won’t the SWP and the Socialist Party join the Socialist Campaign to Stop the Tories and Fascists? The SCSTF links a Labour vote, to keep out the Tories, with a fight for the labour movement to assert itself for working-class policies against the New Labour gang.
Poll Tax anniversary: why Dukes pay more than dustmen
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The “poll tax” — a flat rate system of taxation designed to replace local government rates — was introduced by Margaret Thatcher's government in Scotland in April 1989, a year before its introduction in England and Wales.
Debate: The Irish Workers Group: the "national question" and the test of the Provo war
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I want to make an addendum to my article on the “Irish national question” in the last issue of Solidarity (3/170).
Phyllis Jacobson
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Phyllis Jacobson died on 2 March, aged 87, after a protracted illness. She was a veteran of the socialist and Trotskyist movement in the US.
The life, times and ideas of Antonio Gramsci
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Antonio Gramsci arrived as a student at Turin University in 1911 and joined the Socialist Party in 1914. He had had a difficult struggle to get to university — his family was poor — and while at university suffered very bad health.
Was Brecht a misogynist and fraudster?
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Bertold Brecht is well known for his plays, poems, short stories and contributions to theatre theory and practice. His influence is also extensive in the films of Lars von Trier, Werner Fassbinder, Nagisa, Oshima, Ritwik, Ghatak and Jean Luc Godard.
Sixties radicals and the Holocaust
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Stan Crooke reviews Utopia or Auschwitz – Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust by Hans Kundnani.